{"id":27,"date":"2006-06-16T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/06\/16\/friday-random-ten-june-16\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T18:21:34","slug":"friday-random-ten-june-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/friday-random-ten-june-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, June 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Stills, “In the Beginning”<\/b>. I accidentally downloaded this from Salon this morning. I know absolutely nothing about the band.\n
  2. Planet X, “Digital Vertigo”<\/b>. PlanetX is quite a strange group. All instrumental, something like a cross between bebop and heavy metal. Great group, highly recommended.\n
  3. Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings, “Ouditarus Rez”<\/b>. Darol is one of my favorite musicians. He’s a violinist who at different times has played everything from classical to jazz to bluegrass to rock; he’s performed with everyone from Emmylou Harris to Bela Fleck to Joshua Bell. The Republic of Strings is one of his recent ventures; and they do a range of styles from old-time fiddle tunes, to full-of-fire country fiddling, to jazz vocal tunes.\n
  4. Flook, “Larry Get Out of the Bin \/ Elzic’s Farewell”<\/b>. Flook is the greatest instrumental Irish band in the known universe. 4 people, all accousting: probably the worlds best tinwhistle player, an great alto flute(!)\/accordion player, one of the greatest bodhran player’s I’ve ever heard, and a really amazing rythym guitarist. Do not<\/em> miss an opportunity to hear these guys live; even if you think you don’t like Irish music, go hear them, they’ll change your mind.\n
  5. Oregon, “Prelude”<\/b>. Oregon is trio playing interesting bop jazz. Sometimes atonal, sometimes downright ugly, sometimes amazing. Led by an Oboe\/English horn player who used to do a lot of touring with Bela Fleck before Bela hooked up with Jeff Coughin. (Who is a truly horrible player in my opinion; I don’t know what<\/em> Bela sees in Jeff; the guy’s loud, repetitive, loud, dull, loud, non-creative, loud, gimmicky, and loud.)\n
  6. Suzanne Vega, “Straight Lines”<\/b>. Great tune off of my favorite Suzanne Vega album. I really like her very sparse old stuff.\n
  7. Solas, “The Wiggly Jigs”<\/b>. More trad Irish.\n
  8. Porcupine Tree, “Prodigal”<\/b>. PT is one of my favorite neo-progressive bands. They’ve got a really great sound, blending almost bizzarely smooth vocals with dense distorted guitar.\n
  9. Dream Theater, “Stream of Consciousness”<\/b>. Dream Theater is neo-progressive heavy metal. Great if you like that kind of thing, which I definitely do.\n
  10. Lunasa, “The Cullyback Hop”<\/b>. And one more trad Irish band. Lunasa is a very<\/em> traditional instrumental Irish band. Very up-tempo, a bit too much so at times, but full of amazing energy, traditional instrumentation, and a very trad style. Melody lead is generally flute and Uillean bagpipes, with guitar and bass backing. It’s damned hard to sit through a Lunasa album without wanting to get up and dance. The ultimate Irish concert experience would be a double billing of Flook and Lunasa.\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Stills, “In the Beginning”. I accidentally downloaded this from Salon this morning. I know absolutely nothing about the band. Planet X, “Digital Vertigo”. PlanetX is quite a strange group. All instrumental, something like a cross between bebop and heavy metal. Great group, highly recommended. Darol Anger and the Republic of Strings, “Ouditarus Rez”. Darol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}